GOP disregards vote discrepancy at their own convention

[Rose Siding]

Republicans, who made much of that and other 2004 election discrepancies in their unsuccessful court bid to unseat Democratic Gov. Christine Gregoire, found themselves with the same problem at their King County convention in Bellevue yesterday.

In the 9th District, 436 voting delegates were seated — but tellers counted 444 ballots, including one abstention, in the contest between Steve Hammond and Reagan Dunn to become the party's official choice for the King County Council in the fall elections.

How did they reconcile the difference? They didn't.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002331387_gopside12m.html

[eyesroll]

1. Here's a dirty little secret:

We do the same thing.

There were more votes than delegates at the Wisconsin State Democratic Party convention this weekend. I'm still waiting to find out if there's a reasonable explanation (i.e. the delegate count released just before the vote started wasn't the final one) or what.

[bugslsu9]

2. No there were not

There were 895 eligible, 890 voted

[eyesroll]

3. Hm. Okay.

Then, as I said -- it's possible I heard the wrong delegate total. My mistake (and thanks).

[madozone]

5. actually...

There were 795 voting delegates and 790 voted in the Chair's race.

[madozone]

4. not sure what happened either

I was there too -- if you recall they were trying to resolve some discrepancies right before the balloting started, so that might be it.